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$10k in Receipts: 1986 Audi Ur-Quattro

This 1985 Audi Ur-Quattro (chassis WAUDC0850FA900616) is said to be a three owner car with 114,600 miles showing on the odometer. The seller says it’s always been garaged and as a result is totally rust free, while recent work includes a rebuilt turbo, head, A/C, all CV joints either rebuilt or replaced, plus new brakes and rotors. Paint is also said to be new, and even the cassette deck has been restored – the kind of attention to detail and originality that’s almost always a good sign. Find it here on eBay in Los Angeles, California.

Though not pictured, the underside of this car is said to bevery clean, and based on what we can see of the shiny bits, we’ve little reason to doubt this claim. These cars look great in pretty much any factory Audi shade, including the ubiquitous red, but it’s nice to see one wearing a subdued and stealthy hue like the battleship gray of this example. The condition of the interior isn’t mentioned, but the driver’s door card and passenger seat sure look nice – no other photos are included. We’d want to know if the dash is cracked or if there are any other undisclosed problems before bidding. The gray leather (said to be special order) looks very nice and compliments the exterior well.

There’s a couple of stacks of receipts shown in the ad’s gallery, as well as a few seemingly original owner’s manuals and a shop book, too – these can be expensive and hard to find, and with an old, complex car like the Ur, are always a welcome inclusion. In addition to the lengthy maintenance list already mentioned, a new master cylinder is also said to have been fitted recently. An unnamed short shift kit is said to have been fitted as well.

Stock rims have been powder coated, and are said to be wearing new tires. Cruise control is said to work well, a good sign seeing as this can often be a good sign of overall health due to sketchy electrics or vacuum issues. Apart from any undisclosed suspension or electrical problems, we struggle to think of much more that this car could need apart from what’s already said to have received attention, though it’s hard to imagine such a fastidious keeper would leave anything undone – still, it’s always a good idea to ask rather than assume.

It’s refreshing to see a relatively high-mileage car in such apparently good shape. Knowing that it’s not a time capsule with four figures on the odometer would make flogging it hard much easier, and if there’s ever been a car designed to be flogged it’s an Ur Quattro. Keep up on the maintenance, and if it ends up moving out of SoCal, out of the salt (hard to do in such an adept snow machine!), and it’ll last another three decades with ease.